BILL NUMBER: SB 553	CHAPTERED  09/27/00

	CHAPTER   712
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 27, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 25, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 31, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 30, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 22, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JUNE 15, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JANUARY 24, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JANUARY 11, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MARCH 25, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Kelley

                        FEBRUARY 19, 1999

   An act to amend Section 10631 of the Water Code, relating to
water, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 553, Kelley.  Urban water management plans.
   (1) Existing law requires an urban water supplier, as defined, to
prepare, adopt, and update an urban water management plan in
accordance with specified requirements.  Existing law requires the
plan to include specified components, including a description of each
water demand management measure that is being implemented, or
scheduled for implementation.
   This bill would revise the water demand management measures
required to be described.
   (2) The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately
as an urgency statute.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 10631 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   10631.  A plan shall be adopted in accordance with this chapter
and shall do all of the following:
   (a) Describe the service area of the supplier, including current
and projected population, climate, and other demographic factors
affecting the supplier's water management planning.  The projected
population estimates shall be based upon data from the state,
regional, or local service agency population projections within the
service area of the urban water supplier and shall be in five-year
increments to 20 years or as far as data is available.
   (b) Identify and quantify, to the extent practicable, the existing
and  planned sources of water available to the supplier over the
same five-year increments as described in subdivision (a).
   (c) Describe the reliability of the water supply and vulnerability
to seasonal or climatic shortage, to the extent practicable, and
provide data for each of the following:
   (1) An average water year.
   (2) A single dry water year.
   (3) Multiple dry water years.
   For any water source that may not be available at a consistent
level of use, given specific legal, environmental, water quality, or
climatic factors, describe plans to replace that source with
alternative sources or water demand management measures, to the
extent practicable.
   (d) Describe the opportunities for exchanges or transfers of water
on a short-term or long-term basis.
   (e) (1) Quantify, to the extent records are available, past and
current water use, over the same five-year increments described in
subdivision (a), and projected water use, identifying the uses among
water use sectors including, but not necessarily limited to, all of
the following uses:
   (A) Single-family residential.
   (B) Multifamily.
   (C) Commercial.
   (D) Industrial.
   (E) Institutional and governmental.
   (F) Landscape.
   (G) Sales to other agencies.
   (H) Saline water intrusion barriers, groundwater recharge, or
conjunctive use, or any combination thereof.
   (I) Agricultural.
   (2) The water use projections shall be in the same five-year
increments as described in subdivision (a).
   (f) Provide a description of the supplier's water demand
management measures.  This description shall include all of the
following:
   (1) A description of each water demand management measure that is
currently being implemented, or scheduled for implementation,
including the steps necessary to implement any proposed measures,
including, but not limited to, all of the following:
   (A) Water survey programs for single-family residential and
multifamily residential customers.
   (B) Residential plumbing retrofit.
   (C) System water audits, leak detection, and repair.
   (D) Metering with commodity rates for all new connections and
retrofit of existing connections.
   (E) Large landscape conservation programs and incentives.
   (F) High-efficiency washing machine rebate programs.
   (G) Public information programs.
   (H) School education programs.
   (I) Conservation programs for commercial, industrial, and
institutional accounts.
   (J) Wholesale agency programs.
   (K) Conservation pricing.
   (L) Water conservation coordinator.
   (M) Water waste prohibition.
   (N) Residential ultra-low-flush toilet replacement programs.
   (2) A schedule of implementation for all water demand management
measures proposed or described in the plan.
   (3) A description of the methods, if any, that the supplier will
use to evaluate the effectiveness of water demand management measures
implemented or described under the plan.
   (4) An estimate, if available, of existing conservation savings on
water use within the supplier's service area, and the effect of such
savings on the supplier's ability to further reduce demand.
   (g) An evaluation of each water demand management measure listed
in paragraph (1) of subdivision (f) that is not currently being
implemented or scheduled for implementation.  In the course of the
evaluation, first consideration shall be given to water demand
management measures, or combination of measures,  that offer lower
incremental costs than expanded or additional water supplies.  This
evaluation shall do all of the following:
   (1) Take into account economic and noneconomic factors, including
environmental, social, health, customer impact, and technological
factors.
   (2) Include a cost-benefit analysis, identifying total benefits
and total costs.
   (3) Include a description of funding available to implement any
planned water supply project that would provide water at a higher
unit cost.
   (4) Include a description of the water supplier's legal authority
to implement the measure and efforts to work with other relevant
agencies to ensure the implementation of the measure and to share the
cost of implementation.
   (h) Urban water suppliers that are members of the California Urban
Water Conservation Council and submit annual reports to that council
in accordance with the "Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Urban
Water Conservation in California," dated September 1991, may submit
the annual reports identifying water demand management measures
currently being implemented, or scheduled for implementation, to
satisfy the requirements of subdivisions (f) and (g).
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to identify water demand management measures that are
being implemented by urban water suppliers as soon as possible, it is
necessary that this act take effect immediately.
